RE: [PHP] dynamic menu possible?

Your wanted solution is seen in the "phpXML" demo, by Michael P. Mehl. It is founded at the http://www.phpxml.org/. Try the exciting "xpath" example! > -----Original Message----- > From: LRW [mailto:liam@nospahmcelticbear.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 4:24 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] dynamic menu possible? > > > Hi all. > I was wondering if a situation I'll describe below is possible. If it is, > I'm hoping someone could point me to the topics I would need to study to > learn how to do it. I hate to say that right now I don't have the time to > read the Manual or any books cover-to-cover to figure it > out...but I do want > to learn how to do things on my own. So if someone could just tell me what > the items I'd need to study are called, I'd really appreciate it. > > What I want to do is have a drop-down menu where the options are files > located in a folder on the server that changes as items are added to or > removed. Then the user can select an item from the menu, submit, and that > page will load. > Did that make sense? > So I have 1.htm and 2.htm and 3.htm in a folder. A selectable > menu reads the > folder and lists those three files as options. The user can click > on it and > submit and that page will load. And if I add 4.htm, the menu will add that > to the drop down on its own. > > That that's not possible, how close can I get to something like that? > An example of something close to that I found on www.megatokyo.com . They > have a dropdown menu where a user selects an item and gets sent to that > page. A URL from one attempts shows as > http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?date=2001-09-04 . How is > that done? > > Again, if I could just be pointed to the related PHP concepts I'll take it > from there. > Thanks!!!!! > Liam > www.celticbear.com